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World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

★ 5.7/10•2008•1h 0m•16+•Documentary•War & Politics
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Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.

Andrew Williams · Director

Laurence Rees · Writer

Laurence Rees · Director

Anjelina Keating · Writer

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateNov 10, 2008

Episodes

Episode 1 - Unlikely Friends, Part 1E160m

Unlikely Friends, Part 1

The unlikely non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin that existed until the Nazis betrayed the Soviet Union in June 1941, when Stalin looked to form a new alliance.

Nov 10, 2008

Episode 2 - Unlikely Friends, Part 2E260m

Unlikely Friends, Part 2

A look at the events of 1941 when, having been betrayed by Hitler, Stalin switched his allegiances to Britain and America. It was an alliance based on military pragmatism, which never altered the mutual antipathy between Churchill - who despised only Nazism above Communism - and the Soviet leader, who knew that his Red Army was ill-equipped to cope with the Nazi onslaught alone.

Nov 17, 2008

Episode 3 - Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1E360m

Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

The relationship between Churchill and Stalin, and the secret history that clouded their first meeting in Moscow in August 1942 where they became set on a path to achieve an uncomfortable alliance.

Nov 24, 2008

Episode 4 - Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2E460m

Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

The secret history of the Second World War by focusing on the first meeting of the "Big Three" - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - which took place in Tehran in 1943.

Dec 1, 2008

Episode 5 - Diving the World, Part 1E560m

Diving the World, Part 1

Features the Red Army's progress through eastern Europe in 1944, as well as uncovering the power struggles and political intrigue going on behind the scenes during the most famous Allied conference of the conflict, held at Yalta in the Crimea.

Dec 8, 2008

Episode 6 - Dividing the World, Part 2E660m

Dividing the World, Part 2

Focuses on the collapse of the Allies' marriage of convenience with Stalin in the wake of Hitler's defeat and how the Soviet dictator wanted to turn on his former comrades-in-arms.

Dec 15, 2008

Actors

Aleksey Petrenko

Aleksey Petrenko

Joseph Stalin

Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton

Franklin Roosevelt

Paul Humpoletz

Paul Humpoletz

Winston Churchill

Samuel West

Samuel West

narrator

Valeriy Zhakov

Valeriy Zhakov

Vyacheslav Molotov

Michael J. Reynolds

Michael J. Reynolds

Gen. George C. Marshall

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